Sin Cottage

Toni and I are in the lodging business; hotel rooms, apartments and Dockside vacation rentals. You can see them all at www.skaneatelessuites.com.

One of the reasons we do so well with the Cottage rentals is that when I was a "younger" man, a small group of us single guys rented a cottage every year for 10 years. It was little more than a shack, but it did have cold running water and it's own prive outhouse. We called it Sin Cottage.

Back then, the City of Syacuse had a "Honey Boat" which plied that lake emptying outhouse pails. Ha! Your tax dollars at work. Our Outhouse was a two-holer and we made sure there was a currrent Sears Roebuck catalog inside [Sears doesn't have catalogs anymore, and Sin Cottage doesn't have an outhouse, nor does the City have pail service]. Too bad on all counts.

Sin Cottage had two small bedrooms and another shack down by the water. John stayed there; he liked the privacy since there was always a parade of good looking women following him to Sin Cottage.

Sadly, I never had the same need for privacy, so I moved my bed to the unscreened porch and slept with the sounds of the forest, and the sounds of John's shack to lull me to sleep.

On year we rigged up a shower, of sorts. It was on an outside wall of Sin Cottage and consisted of a shower head connected to a hose and a funnel. [We considered installing a shower curtain, but that idea was 86'd quickly.] After breakfast, we would invite whatever girls were there to take a shower, which meant that someone had to climb up a stepladder and pour a pail of tepid water in the funnel. Of course, everyone else promised to not watch. Ha!

Here is the amazing thing: of the dozens and dozens of women who drifted through Sin Cottage over the decade, virtually all hated the outhouse and virtually all agreed to take a shower.

Just to be on the record, Sin Cottage is long gone, fallen to a million dollar development, and, the Cottages we now rent all have indoor showers and toilets. Too bad!

Curt